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A new book is baring all on vice president joe bidens love for stripping down in the pool. That exchange is one among many that active and retired secret service agents shared with ronald kessler, author of first family detail, a compelling look at the intrepid personnel who shield. Theres no worse assignment for a secret service agent than protecting hillary clinton, if claims in a controversial new book are to be believed. Since publication of his bestselling book in the presidents secret service, investigative reporter ronald kessler has continued to penetrate the wall of secrecy that surrounds the u. The family was living in holcomb, kansas, and in november 1959, they were brutally killed, with. Secret service agents reveal the hidden lives of the presidents tells that eyeopening, uncensored story. In the overall structure of the epic, this fighting involves three large movements between the ships and the city. The weird inaccuracies in ronald kesslers new book on the secret. As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidentia. The first family detail by ronald kessler the crown. Behind the scenes with secret service agents by kessler, ronald isbn. The book is just over 200 pages long but is filled with inside dope on the first family. Secret service agents reveal the hidden lives of the presidents post to facebook cancel send. Secret service agents have a frontrow seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children.
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